Rotor For An Impact Crusher

ABSTRACT

A rotor of an impact crusher has at least one stellate plate, which can be attached to the rotor shaft. A plurality of paddle-blade type hammer tools are mounted on each stellate plate. The hammer tools are secured above and below the stellate plate by tool mounting brackets having hook-shaped ends that engage with the hammer tools. A respective adapter piece is placed in the stellate plate between the two tool mounting brackets. A retaining bolt penetrates the two tool mounting brackets and the adapter piece. A security slide secures the retaining bolt in position. The hammer tools of the inventive rotor for an impact crusher have a high usage volume and the rotor is extremely user-friendly with respect to the recurring tasks of setting and replacing the hammer tools, without having to loosen screw connections.

The present invention relates to a rotor for an impact crusher with a vertically extending rotor shaft and at least one stellate plate connected thereon locked against rotation, on which a plurality of replaceable attached hammer tools are mountably attached in the relative distance to the centre of the rotor disc by means of different replaceable adapter pieces.

Impact crushers are used in a variety of different technical fields, whereby herein only the use regarding the separation and delamination, respectively, of compound materials is of interest. Such compound materials can be compounds of metal/metal, plastic/plastic, metal/plastic or mineral compounds with metals and/or plastics. Since the physical properties of the individual components of the compounds are different, such compound particles are separated in impact crushers in that with each impulse different materials deform unequally elastically and unequally plastically and thereby separate. Typical compound materials which are processed by the applicant are, for example, electronic waste and shredder waste, such as residue from the shredder (RESH), shredder light fractions (SLF) or automotive shredder residues (ASR) from car recycling.

The use of impact crushers in this area is associated with enormous wear of the hammer tools. This is quite contrary to hammer mills which are used for grinding of grain products particularly in the food processing industry. An example of such a hammer mill is described in DE-10 355 119 A.

Many impact crushers work with so called hammer blades, which are mounted across the entire effective range of the rotor shaft and extending parallel thereto. In principle there are two versions known, namely on the one hand embodiments in which the hammer blade is designed as a reversible hammer blade and therefore can be reversed by 180° after a wearout of the one side and is usable again so that again a same tool life is available. Since such reversible hammer blades are not adjustable in radial direction they are implementable only in areas in which the abrasion per time unit is relatively small. With the abrasion the blade not only becomes thinner but also the radial distance of the hammer blades decreases. This is not least to be attributed to the fact that the areas of the hammer blade located further to the outside are moved with higher speed and therefore here also the respective impulses are higher and hence the abrasion is higher. If however the hammer blade wears out at the outer edge, the gap between the hammer blade and the crusher walls increases. Thereby also the efficiency of the mill is automatically reduced. An example of an impact crusher rotor with a reversible hammer blade is described, for example, in EP-0 945 181 A. For the use in the field of compound material delamination, particularly for shredder waste from scrapped car disposal and electronic waste, constructions of the therein mentioned type are hardly suitable. Besides the extremely high wear in these areas, additionally an extreme deposit of particles with partly oily portions occurs, whereby these particles are deposited everywhere on the rotor. When the hammer blades have to be replaced or reversed, the respective screw connections, which serve for clamping the blades, have to be loosened. This is basically impossible without intensive cleaning.

In a very unconventional construction, in which the rotor shaft consists of a casing formed of rings connected through circumferential weld seams, hammer tools, which are retained by axially parallel rods penetrating the discs can here be inserted between the individual ring segments. Also this solution has the drawback that along with the wear of the tools the space between the ends of the hammer tools and the crusher wall of the stator also increases constantly and hence the efficiency of the mill is decreased.

Finally an impact crusher with a rotor according to the preamble of claim 1 is known from WO 00/53324-A. The rotor of this impact crusher includes a stellate plate having horseshoe-shape hammer tools, the free ends of which are at least approximately facing radially outwards. Within the inner free space of these horseshoe-shaped hammer tools adapter pieces are mounted, which can be replaced depending on the wear of the hammer tools, so as to bring the free ends closer again to the crusher walls of the stator. Hereby the distance between these free wearing ends of the horseshoe-shaped hammer tools can be adjusted within a relatively tight range regarding the distance of these free ends and the crusher wall at the stator and hence the efficiency of the system can be maintained. The adaptors are not subject to abrasion and are replaced depending on the requirements. The impact crushers of interest herein have a rotor diameter of, for example, 1 to 2 meters and rotate with a speed of between 1000 to 3000 rpm. This results in circumferential speeds of up to 500 km/h. In case of larger elements getting into such an impact crusher or if certain lumps are building up by coincident, the torque in case of a drum blockade would be so high, that the rotor as well as the stator would be damaged. Since the adaptors are mounted on the stellate plate by means of a bolt or a screw, the adaptors can rotate. The hereby occurring torque impulse however is enormously high. The arrangement with an one-sided support of the adaptor above the stellate plate results in a disadvantageous force transmission and accordingly subsequent damages through a shearing bolt or screw, with which an adaptor is mounted on the stellate plate, can occur.

Another problem of this known solution of a rotor for an impact crusher is that the material portion of the hammer tools, which is not available for abrasion, is very high. Optimally calculated only 20 to 30% of the volume of the hammer tools are available for abrasion. This however increases the overall production cost.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a rotor for an impact crusher for which the hammer tools are designed replaceable without screw connections, for which the percentage of the wearable volume of the hammer tools is considerably increased and the support of the hammer tools is able to receive high transmission forces and the pivotability of the hammer tools relative to the stellate plate is improved and designed more secure. This versatile object is achieved by a rotor for an impact crusher of the aforesaid type with the features of the characterizing part of patent claim 1.

Further advantageous embodiments of the subject of the invention arise from the depending claims and the relevance and mode of operation of the same are illustrated in the following description with reference to the attached drawings.

In the drawings a preferred exemplary embodiment of the subject of the invention is illustrated in detail and described below. In the figures

FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of an inventive rotor of an impact crusher and

FIG. 2 shows the same rotor in an axial longitudinal cross section.

FIG. 3 shows a single stellate plate with hammer tools mounted thereon in a plan view and

FIG. 4 shows a same stellate plate with hammer tools, but in a perspective illustration.

FIG. 5 illustrates the inventive hammer tool in a perspective view from inside and

FIG. 6 the same hammer tool, also in a perspective illustration viewed from the other side.

FIG. 7 shows a perspective illustration of a tool mounting bracket,

FIG. 8 shows a retaining bolt insertable through the tool mounting bracket and

FIG. 9 shows an adapter piece placeable in the stellate plate and replaceable retained therein, the interaction of which is apparent from the following Figures, wherein

FIG. 10 shows a radial partial cross section through the stellate plate and the hammer tool as well as the elements required for mounting the hammer tool to the stellate plate;

FIG. 11 shows the same cross section in a perspective illustration and

FIG. 12 shows the respective portion of the stellate plate in a plan view.

While the impact crusher as a whole is not illustrated herein and in principle could be designed conventionally, the rotor is shown in the FIGS. 1 and 2 in the assembly. The rotor is generally denoted with 1 and comprises the characteristic vertically arranged rotor shaft 2 including a bearing 3 on the drive side and a corresponding bearing 4, which is supported at the opposite end of the shaft in the housing of the mill stator. Around the shaft a shaft casing 5 is mounted on the shaft 2 locked against rotation. This shaft casing comprises respective ribs which serve for mounting of one or more stellate plates 10 in a predetermined and desired angular arrangement relative to the shaft and to each other. Between each of the individual stellate plates 10 cylindrical spacers 6 are placed, which secure the positioning of the stellate plates 10 in axial direction relative to the bearing and on the other hand relative to each other in axial direction. The driving of the shaft takes place through a multi-grooved V-belt pulley 7, which is mounted locked against rotation at the driving end of the shaft 2. The entire rotor shaft is finally connected with the stator housing through a rotor bearing ring and is mounted on a chassis, on which a respective drive motor is arranged, by means of which the rotor shaft 1 can be driven via respective V-belts. The chassis plate itself can also be part of the stator housing and accordingly the rotor bearing ring 8 is then mounted directly within the chassis support plate. As mentioned, the structure and the design of the stator are not relevant here and therefore will not be addressed any further.

In FIG. 3 the stellate plate 10 including all hammer tools 20 mounted thereon is shown. The stellate plate is called such because all tools around the periphery of the stellate plate are connected radially extending outwards and therefore forms the shape of a multi-pointed star. The stellate plate 10 comprises a centrical, circular location hole 11, in which respective rib recesses 12 in specified angle positions are formed, which are radially facing outwards. These rib recesses serve to receive respective ribs in a positive fit on the shaft casing, thereby securing the specific angle position of the stellate plate 10 relative to the shaft. The next stellate plate can be mounted accordingly in a manner that the disc engages the other ribs on the shaft casing and thereby the stellate plate is arranged displaced by an angle relative to the before-mounted stellate plate. This angle corresponds approximately to half of the spacing of two adjacent hammer tools. A minor deviation from this spacing ensures the full pivotability of the hammer tools on adjacent stellate plates. However, with an appropriate choice of the distances between two stellate plates, the hammer tools can well be arranged in line on top of each other.

The hammer tools 20 are held in place below and above of the respective stellate plate 10 by means of the tool mounting brackets 30. In the perspective illustration of FIG. 4 both tool mounting brackets, which are connected to the hammer tool 20 in a positive fit, can be seen.

In FIGS. 5 and 6 the inventive hammer tool is shown in a perspective view from both sides. FIG. 5 shows the hammer tool with regard to the rotating direction from the rear side, thus the side which is not exposed to direct abrasion, while FIG. 6 shows the wearing side located in front with regard to the rotational direction. The hammer tools have in general the shape of a paddle blade. The front rectangular blade portion 21 is available completely for wear. At the end, which is tapered through the two side curves 22, which is facing the stellate plate, a recess 23 can be seen. Left hand and right hand from this recess two holding blocks 24 are formed. These holding blocks are projecting virtually freely in direction to the stellate plate and can therefore be encompassed by the tool mounting brackets, yet to be described, from four sides. An engagement groove 25 following the holding blocks 24 in direction to the blade portion 21 is shown. This engagement groove 25 is raised on that longitudinal side, which is located opposite to the holding blocks 24, and forms a support rib 26. Furthermore, on the blade portion 21 on the side of the wear side, left hand and right hand from recess 23 reinforcing ribs 27 are formed, which rise from outside to the inside and are cut straight on their ends facing the stellate plates and form respective front faces 28.

The hammer tools 20 are connected with the stellate plate 10 through a strictly positive-fit connection. For this purpose particularly the tool mounting brackets 30 are used. FIG. 7 shows such a tool mounting bracket in a perspective illustration. The tool mounting bracket 30 is preferably forged from high-strength steel. The hammer tools 20 are preferably made as steel castings but could also be made as forgings. The tool mounting bracket 30 has two side faces extending parallel to each other, a rounded end facing the stellate plate and a hook-shaped end facing the hammer tool. In the rounded end 31 a bearing bore 32 is formed. The bearing bore 32 comprises on its upper side of the assembly position a chamfer 33, which on one hand facilitates the insertion of the retaining bolt 34, shown in FIG. 8, and on the other hand serves as locating face for the swelling 35 on the end side of retaining bolt 34. Thus the restraining bolt is provided with a respective stopper and stays in this position under influence of the gravity. Diametrically opposed across the bearing bore 32 there are two blind holes 35, in which two pins, not shown, can be inserted. At one of these pins a locking plate is pivotably attached, which has a recess, in order to engage in a positive and/or non-positive fit in the second pin.

The hook-shaped end 36 of the tool mounting bracket 30 comprises a straight front face 37, which in the mounted condition rests against the outer wall of the engagement groove 25 and rests again the surface of the support rib 26 aligned to this wall in the mounted condition. In the hook-shaped end 36 the respective hook-shaped recess 38 is formed. This hook-shaped recess 38 is dimensioned in such a manner that in the mounted condition the respective holding block 24 is encompassed abutting on each of the four sides. Parallel to the straight front face 37 there is a second front face 39, which in the mounted condition comes to a rest against the respective front faces 28 of the reinforcing ribs 27. Thus the torque, which acts during operation of the hammer tools on the same, is supported at these two front faces 37 and 39. With the hereby existing high speed however, the centrifugal force is so high, that this torque is completely absorbed by the centrifugal force, if not, as already described, an event occurs, which virtually abruptly results in an increase of the torque, thereby subsequently rotating the hammer tool around the bolt 34. Hereby the working gap increases between the hammer tools and the circumferential crusher walls, which results in an immediate load relieving of the whole system. In FIG. 9 the adapter piece, previously not shown in the different Figures, is illustrated separately. This adapter piece typically has an elongated shape and on its longitudinal axis 42 a bearing bore 42 is positioned somewhere between the two end positions. Depending on the composition of the compound to be delaminated, the blade portion 21 on the hammer tool 20 is sooner or later worn out in a manner that the working gap between the front edge of the hammer tool and the crusher wall on the stator is so big, that either the delamination is insufficient or the efficiency is decreased. As soon as this is the case, the hammer tools have to be moved in outward direction. This takes place by replacing the adapter pieces 40. Accordingly for each rotor of an impact crusher a plurality of series of adapter pieces 40 is required, whereby for each series the relative arrangement of the bearing bore 42 on the longitudinal axis 41 is different. For illustration of the mounting, reference is made to the FIGS. 10 to 12.

In FIG. 10 a radial vertical cross section is shown. The paddle-blade-shaped hammer tool 20 is cut correspondingly in centre. The stellate plate 10 extends in the middle. The adapter piece 40 is placed in the stellate plate 10. The recess 23 in the hammer tool 20 is shown as well as the engagement groove 25 extending perpendicular thereto. The hook-shaped ends 36 of the upper and lower tool mounting bracket 30 engage in the engagement groove 25. The retaining bolt 34 penetrates from top to bottom first the upper tool mounting bracket 30 then the adapter piece 40 and finally the lower tool mounting bracket 30. Here also the formed flange of the retaining bolt 34, which determines the position, can be seen.

In the view according to FIG. 11, which shows the same cross section in a perspective view, the rib recesses 12 in the stellate plate 10 can additionally be seen. Referring to FIG. 3 reference is made again to the locking of the retaining bolt 34. As already mentioned, blind holes, in which the pins 51 are inserted, are formed in the tool mounting brackets 30. Around the pin located inwards in radial direction a locking plate 50 is arranged pivotably. By means of a lateral opening 52 the locking plate 50 encompasses the pin 51 located outwards in radial direction. The rotational direction of the stellate plate and the rotational direction of the locking plate to lock it are opposed, whereby the locking plate virtually automatically would move into the lock position due to a combination of the moment of inertia and the centrifugal force. Of course it cannot be solely relied thereon.

In the illustration according to the FIGS. 10 to 12 however the locking of the retaining bolt 34 is realised by means of a security slide. This security slide has a circle-segment-shaped design and comprises two slide slots 54, which are parallel to each other and are extending from inside outwards. Locking screws 55 are projecting through the security slots 54 and an intermediate bushing 56, which is slightly longer than the thickness of the tool mounting bracket 30, into the stellate plate 10. The advantage of these security slides 53 is that, for example, for the whole periphery four of such slides are sufficient and each slide secures four retaining bolts 34 at the same time. Thanks to the higher mass of the security slide 43 it is also absolutely ensured that due to the acting centrifugal forces the security slide 53 slides outwards and thereby covers the retaining bolts completely.

The herein described inventive rotor for an impact crusher achieves the given object in an ideal manner. The paddle-blade-shaped hammer tools can be utilised up to at least 50% remaining volume while maintaining full efficiency.

The specific design of the mounting of the hammer tools allows a screw-less replacement of the hammer tools and a screw-less adjustment of the hammer tools in a radial direction, respectively. For this purpose it is only necessary to move the security slide 53 inwards in radial direction, to remove the now exposed retaining bolts 34, to remove the upper one of the two tool mounting brackets 30 and to pull out the respective adapter piece 40 from the stellate plate 10 and to replace it by another adapter piece with a bearing bore, whereby this bearing bore 42 is arranged on the longitudinal axis 41 of the adapter piece somewhat closer to the centre. These replacement operations can be carried out without problems, without the need of carrying out a cleaning in advance. The whole impact crusher is of course designed such that after removal of the housing cover the rotor can be pulled out of the stator housing as a package. The required maintenance work, such as cleaning or replacement of the adapter pieces 40 can now be carried out without disassembly of the rotor.

REFERENCE LIST

-   1 Rotor of an impact crusher -   2 Rotor shaft -   3 Bearing of rotor shaft on drive side -   4 Bearing of the rotor shaft on the housing side -   5 Shaft casing -   6 Cylindrical spacer -   7 Multi-grooved V-belt pulley -   8 Rotor bearing ring -   10 Stellate plate -   11 Centrical circular location hole -   12 Rib recesses -   20 Hammer tools -   21 Blade portion -   22 Curves -   23 Recess -   24 Holding blocks -   25 Engagement groove -   26 Support rib -   27 Reinforcement ribs -   28 Front faces -   30 Tool mounting bracket -   31 Rounded end -   32 Bearing bore -   33 Chamfer -   34 Retaining bolt -   35 Blind holes -   36 Hook-shaped end -   37 Straight front face -   38 Hook-shaped recess -   39 Second front face -   40 Adapter piece -   41 Longitudinal axis -   42 Bearing bore -   50 Locking plate -   51 Pins -   52 Lateral opening -   53 Security slide -   54 Slide slots -   55 Locking screws 

1. A rotor for an impact crusher with a vertically extending rotor shaft (2) and at least one stellate plate (10) connected thereon, locked against rotation, on which a plurality of replaceable attached hammer tools (20) are mountably attached in a relative distance to a center of the rotor disc by different replaceable adapter pieces (40), the rotor comprising: the hammer tools (20) shaped as paddle blades with a centrical recess (23) on a mounting side onto which a holding block (24) is formed on both sides, above and below the stellate plate (10) tool mounting brackets (30) interacting with the holding blocks (24) in a positive fit and which by secured retaining bolt (34) are jointly pivotably supported through the adapter piece (40) that is stationary fitted in the stellate plate (10).
 2. The rotor according to claim 1, wherein the tool mounting brackets (30) are thinner by a clearance than a width of the recess (23) in the hammer tools (20).
 3. The rotor according to claim 1, wherein the hammer tools (20) with the tool mounting brackets (30) are pivotable around the secured retaining bolt (34).
 4. The rotor according to claim 1, wherein the holding blocks (24) on the hammer tools (20) project at the end, which is facing the stellate plate (10) in the mounted condition, and the tool mounting brackets (30) comprise hook-shaped recesses (38), which are able to encompass the respective holding block (24) in a positive fit with a clearance.
 5. The rotor according to claim 4, wherein the paddle-shaped hammer tools (20) comprise an engagement groove (25) extending crosswise to the longitudinal dimension of the holding blocks, the groove wall thereof, which is remote to the holding blocks (24), is raised relative to the paddle blade face of the hammer tools (20) and forms a support rib (26) for the tool mounting brackets (30).
 6. The rotor according to claim 5, wherein the paddle-blade-shaped hammer tools (20) comprise on the surface opposite to the support rib (26) two reinforcement ribs (27), extending in a recess direction and ending approximately in a center of the holding blocks (24) each comprising a front face (28) acting as a support face for respectively one tool mounting bracket (30).
 7. The rotor according to claim 1, wherein in the stellate plate (10) recesses are formed, in which the adapter pieces (40), which comprise a bearing bore appropriately dimensioned for the retaining bolts (34), are positionable in a positive fit.
 8. The rotor according to claim 7, wherein the adapter pieces (40) have a mirror-symmetrical outer contour and the bearing bore (32) is arranged on a longitudinal axis (41) of the adapter pieces (40).
 9. The rotor according to claim 1, wherein the tool mounting brackets (30) comprise a bearing bore (32) to be penetrated by the retaining bolt (34), and two pins (51) are arranged on a straight line diametrically crossing the bearing bore (32), wherein on one of the two pins (51) a locking plate (50) is pivotably attached, which comprises a recess to engage in a positive fit and/or a non-positive fit in the second pin (51).
 10. The rotor according to claim 1, wherein the rotor (1) comprises a plurality of stellate plates (10) with respective hammer tools (20) regularly distributed at a periphery, wherein respectively two adjacent stellate plates (10) are displaced by a half of a spacing of the hammer tools (20).
 11. The rotor according to claim 1, wherein the rotor comprises a plurality of stellate plates (10) with hammer tools (20) arranged respectively distributed at the periphery, wherein the stellate plates are arranged in the projection congruently on top of each other, so that all hammer tools arranged on top of each other are in line.
 12. The rotor according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of adjacent retaining bolts (34) are secured by a security slide (53), which comprises at least one slide slot penetrated by a locking screw, wherein the slide slot extends so that upon an effect of the centrifugal force, a security slide comes to rest over the retaining bolt.
 13. A hammer tool for a rotor of an impact crusher with a vertically extending rotor shaft (2) and at least one stellate plate (10) connected thereon, locked against rotation, on which a plurality of replaceable attached hammer tools (20) are mountably attached in a relative distance to a center of a rotor disc by different replaceable adapter pieces (40), comprising: the hammer tool (20) having a shape of paddle blades with a central recess (23) on a mounting side, and on both sides of the recess respectively one holding block (24) formed. 